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Here's another review. http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/103/1031302p1.html Has some of the cons of ArmA II. But I don't care about the singleplayer I didn't even touch it in ArmA II and have a great time with the game since release though. It was clear that it won't be the big bomb game. Since ArmA 2 release a lot of people were like "Oh.... but OfP 2 will be tha bomb" I preordered it, too. And I think I will have fun with it. But nothing is comparable to the Coop Events from servers in ArmA II. Or just some hours on Coop Domination map. Having 64 people doing an coordinated attack on cities or saving a convoy or whatever it's just mass of fun. Lying in the dirt with your mates waiting, for the air support to arrive and drop some bombs on your marked targets. First ArmA II was really bad, but It improved every week and now it's lots of fun to play online. Bugs are fixed, performance improved. I hope the ArmA II haters now understand it's not that easy to make such a game. If you want a military simulation, with great multiplayer and Mod-Scene buy ArmA II, if you take some time to install graphics tweaks and stuff it gets really amazing.. If you want a good looking singleplayer experience buy CoD4 /CoD 6. OfP 2 maybe will get better through mods, too. ;-) Lets hope but it's seems to be more action-movie than simulation It's like Far Cry series. First Crytek released Far Cry, wonderful game. Then they released Crysis, wonderful, too. Then Ubisoft released Far Cry 2, also nice but had nothing to do with the first game. That's my oppinion.

They tortured animals till they made the right sounds which fit the game :'D Enginesound is from a squirrel thrown of a roof.

For best DCS performance I would recommend a high clocked dualcore like E8400/E8500/E8600 get a nice CPU cooler and OC it. That will give you best results. @Caliban Like I said graphics card doesn't play a big role. It's very hard for me to get one single GTX280 fully used. You have to set AA to 16xQ with SSAA and texturefilteringquality to very high. But this all doesn't make a difference in it's look. So to play DCS with full details you only need a 8600gt, maybe even 7600gt when playing at small resolution. The rest depends on CPU clock.

Thought since Patch 1.01 you don't need DCS Max anymore to set affinity, But great program though.

You're not able to run ArmA2 on 10km distance fluent, you ain't. Especcialy not with your 3.2Ghz Quad. When I set my CPU to 3.2Ghz I loose 30% performance (tested with ArmA2 Mark) To run ArmA 2 very fluent, I mean minimum 50fps all the time no matter what situation. My Visib Range is 3.8km also got object details on low, shadows on normal. terrain detail on low. Now with VegetationTweak from Kju the framedrops near vegetation are gone but still you can't play on maxed out settings fluent. I lowered the settings because Objectdetails on low don't look big different to very high but costs 20fps same with vegetation detail. When I would set all settings to very high my fps would be around 30 or 40. But then still with 3.8km visib, range, with 10km it's just slideshow. But that's another story. You can't tell me that you are able to run ArmA 2 maxed out fluent. Also, don't you see any differece in flying a helicopter in ArmA 2 against DCS ? You must be blind, DCS uses real physics, wind, whole calculated mechanical/electrical KA-50 system, targeting system, smart acting enemy choppers/aircrafts, you can fly up to 5000m height, map bigger then chernarus where everywhere something is going on like trains and busses, farps, bases. Also when in ArmA 2 having lot's of AI it also looses tons of FPS. You can't come up with that one, but yes DCS engine isn't really based on todays hardware and capabilities.

How did you do that ? I have Win 7 64 and installed oalinst.exe (alchemy) but don't have any alchemy folder or alchemy.exe Edit:Ah sorry I mixed up openAL and Alchemy. But still got the bug when you pause/unpause. It goes away when you zoom out very far in F2-view. Then nothing happens when pause/unpause but otherwise still got the loud engine then. Which path did you use ? I took C:\Program Files (x86)\Eagle Dynamics\Ka-50.

The graphics card doesn't play a big role here. And the Sim only uses one core, not at all but almost only one. Did you install the latest patch 1.01 ?

This helisounds are my favourite, too but I have a question. Is about the soundbug ingame. Which sounds are the real ones ? Usually after unpausing I press F2 and F1 and then I hear the rotorsounds otherwise I hear only the engine or should I not change perspectives after unpausing ? Edit: I used the search function :)

But then, you know, whats the point ? You can think "Well in this simulator my KA50 blew up but in real life I would have survived it" know what I mean. It's not that you get killed in real life because your chopper exploded ingame. Why are you so damn worried about that ?

What's that maxtrix-thingy about ? Plz tell me :D Oh that was a joke... Thought it's some kind of useful dcs feature ;-)

Did you turn: -shadows all planar -Visib. Range = Medium -Waterquality = Normal That should help.

Yea Toby found all the pics, too. Last one is also SU 25, read on a russian forum. But yea I think we got all variations of existing shkval as mods ;-)

Sometimes I have the same issue with the shkval moving very fast in different directions with shkval scan turned off. Try recentering with rctrl-I or just lock it and it will stop moving.

That ain't a dumb question, I don't know, too ;-)

Very nice flying skills and cool videos :)

Yea why not, good idea.

I have 2 steel ropes connected tot he rotors and I pull'em with my hands to change collective :'D Haha that would be cool.

Thank ya, yes :D I edited to set me and my wingmen directly to the enemy base so I didn't had to fly 30 minutes to get there. My wingmen were even able to take out the Hinds, but for me still hard to even see them, they flying with forests and mountains in the background so they're camo does a good job =P

I edited the 8th deployment mission and saved it accidentally. Could someone upload it plz ? Also the mission is very hard for me, I fly half an hour, then I am at the ingress point, start attacking with my stupid wingmen which ask all the time if they can engage something (is there a command for all to let them engage what they want ?), I take out some ground vehicles and SAMs with guided missiles and then 2 Hinds appear and shoot us all down. The briefing says 2 Su 27 will clear the air from units. Should I wait longer till they appear ? Could you give me advice how to attack air targets ? It's like getting attacked by a ghost, I never see them, they are some miles away and not even black little dots, but they can see me maybe because they have FLIR or whatever and shoot the crap out of me. And when I see them the shkval moves too slow, helmet sight is difficult with trackir =(

I would take TrackIR 5 if you sit far away from the device like 3 meters or more otherwise tir4.

I didn't say it's weak my thought was that it's not as strong as the Msffb2 force feedback.

Really ? Hm yea, maybe I have to google how this forcefeedback really works, I know there are motors but, yea, I'll digg a little bit deeper =)

Ok for now I have the MSFFB2 and also got a CH throttle. I already bought the MSFFB2 and wanted to sell it for a higher price because I got it so cheap but I tested it and the joystick is awesome, it's big but the force feedback of it is really amazing, there is no way to compare it with the saitek cyborg force joystick I had before and I don't think the "small" g940 stick is able to generate such force feedback power. Then I saw a ch throttle on ebay and got it for ~50€. So that's really cool, will buy pedals later ;-)

Ah yes ok thanks for info :)

And install as admin if you use win7 /vista =)